Pathologies of the West : an anthropology of mental illness in Europe and America
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Pathologies of the West : an anthropology of mental illness in Europe and America
Continuum, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-283) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European societies as forms of abnormality, if not mental illness. Roland Littlewood, a psychiatrist and social anthropologist, argues that this view developed as Western psychiatry obscured the political origin of its own disturbing cultural patterns. This work is an approach to psychiatric illness in its international perspective and an introduction to developments in the social anthropology of medicine. It examines critically the relevance of phenomenological, structural and ethological approaches to understanding extreme personal experience. Professor Littlewood argues that anthropology must not simply provide a "cultural" alternative to sociological critiques of medicine, whilst psychiatry itself has to take into account the personal embodiment of cultural values.
目次
Psychiatry's culture - Against pathology - The butterfly and the serpent -...and the nurse and others - The instrumental body in the transition to modernity - Perverse masculinity of the domestic siege - Military rape - Genetic sexual attraction - Disorders of the Victorian self - Multiple personality returns: the dialogue between reason and necessity
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